Review articles: comprehensive and synthetic reviews on topics of wide general interest or on hot topics, sometimes solicited by the editorial board. Authors considering submitting a review article for consideration are advised to contact the Journal regarding topic and proposed length.

Format

Manuscripts should usually be submitted as a Word document (.doc or .docx). The document should be double-spaced throughout with a left-hand margin of 3cm, and the page and line numbers function switched on. The manuscript should contain the following information: title page contains of author(s) name, author(s) affiliation, plus email address of the corresponding author; abstract; key words (up to six); text; tables and figures should be in the text where they must be placed. The manuscript must be submitted as one file that are named “Manuscript”.

Maximum word count for abstracts: 250 words

Style

Please use English spelling throughout. Dates should appear in the day-month-year format. Measurements should be metric and use the SI conventions for units and abbreviations.

References

Cite references in the text in the ‘name, date’ format.

If there are two authors, give both names.

If there are three or more authors: Smith et al. (1988) or (Smith et al., 1988). The “et al.” is written in italic.

For unpublished material such as personal communications, give the author’s first initial(s): (F. Fry, pers. comm.).

The reference list at the end of the article should be restricted to work already published, or definitely accepted for publication (in press).

Unpublished material, including work submitted to a journal but not yet formally accepted, should not be included.

List entries alphabetically by the first author’s surname, followed by initials. In cases of multiple authorship: Fry, F., Plie, I. I., and Soglia, I. Give the names of all authors, unless there are more than five, in which case, list the first five authors followed by et al.

All illustrations should be referred to as figures and should be numbered in a single sequence in the order in which they are mentioned in the text. The minimum resolution for greyscale and colour images required for publication is 300-500 dpi. For line art the resolution should be at least 1200 dpi. For any figures that have been previously published, permission must be sought from the previous publisher to reproduce them. It is the authors’ responsibility to secure any required permissions prior to submission. Articles cannot be published before permission is secured. Permission must be granted for both print and online publication in perpetuity.

Use of colour The journal encourages authors to produce all of their figures in colour to enhance the online HTML and PDF versions of their articles. However, colours should be adopted that will reproduce with clarity in grayscale in the printed version of the journal. Authors will be charged for print reproduction of each colour figure in their article. IMPORTANT: authors should size their figures to fit either into one column (85 mm wide) or double column/page width (170 mm wide), but preferably not in between. Remember to assess how much space your figure legend will take.

Supplementary material for online-only publication Supplementary information and/or data, which are preferred to Appendices, may be submitted for online-only publication if it adds value to the manuscript. However, it should not contain material crucial to the understanding of the manuscript, which must be able to stand alone. The availability of online supplementary material should be indicated at the appropriate point in the text and in a section entitled “Supplementary material”, placed immediately before the Acknowledgements section. The section should begin with a statement such as, “The following supplementary material is available at Research in Marine Sciences online”, and should include a brief description of the supplementary material. The citation of references within the supplementary section is discouraged because the references are not hyperlinked as they are in the main text. Supplementary materials should be submitted as separate files that must be named as “Supplementary”. Please note that Supplementary materials will not be edited or amended in any way by the editors or the publisher. Authors are responsible for ensuring that they are rendered correctly.

Ethical conduct

The journal expects that authors will observe the highest standards with respect to publication ethics. For example, the following practices are unacceptable: (1) falsification or fabrication of data, (2) plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the authors’ own work in whole or in part, (3) misappropriation of the work of others such as omission of qualified authors, (4) with holding information of relevance to assess possible conflicts of interest (e.g. financial support), etc.

Authors rights:

The authors of published paper have their own authority to use the paper anywhere with subject to the journal rights such as referring and citations. The author can hold the article copyright without restrictions in lawful purpose.

Submission and Publication fees:

Currently, the journal submission and publication fees are free of charge. The publication fee will be assigned from July 2018.

Publication processes:

The process will be done in double-blind peer review method. After paper submission, it will be passed to the related field editor. If the editor accepts that the paper is suitable for publishing in the journal, she/he will pass the paper to the reviewers. The reviewers have 2-3 weeks time to send their own opinions about the paper regarding to the acceptance, major/minor corrections, or rejection. The reviewers should write their own comments in the paper’s file wherever it is needed and then send it to the editor. The editor will wrap-up the comments and send the results to the corresponding author. If the result is acceptance or corrections, the authors will have a specified time to do the final corrections and send the paper to the journal for doing publication processes.